WorldCat Registry

[Sue Dentinger]

The PrimateLit database uses the WorldCat Registry IP address ranges.  
PrimateLit will match a user's IP address against the campus and display the 
right OpenURL server in their citations if one is listed.  If a patron is 
off-campus, they can fill out what their campus hostname is and the IP address 
of that server is matched to find the right institution.

The other resource that I thought used to make use of the OpenURL matching in 
the WorldCat Registry is eric.ed.gov, but I'm not seeing where it is used in 
there now.

--Sue Dentinger


On 2/12/2014 1:24 PM, Ken Varnum wrote:
> As the lucky guy who maintains our library's entries in OCLC's WorldCat 
> Registry [http://worldcat.org/registry/institutions], I've assiduously 
> maintained data points like our campus IP addresses over the years. Yet I've 
> not come across a library vendor (database, full-text, etc.) who actually 
> makes use of it to maintain on-campus IP ranges for our institution. It 
> seems a promising and useful tool that has largely gone ignored.
>
> Am I simply not asking the right vendors the right questions? Anyone out 
> there have vendors that use the Registry as the source of campus IP data for 
> access?
>
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Sue Dentinger
Library Technology Group
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries
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